Judge Gives Intel More Time To Find Missing E-mail 62
narramissic writes "ITworld is reporting that Intel has until April 17 (7 days more than the original deadline of April 10) to 'explain to a judge why it lost e-mail records that could provide proof that the chip maker used anticompetitive practices as alleged by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).' According to an order from Vincent Poppiti, the special master hearing negotiations of the case, the court is looking for an accounting of Intel's document preservation problems and a proposal for a better solution for archiving future records."
Re:I call poppycock (Score:2, Interesting)
If Intel didn't have a system in place from the get go (I don't know, since I don't work there), it is rather difficult to impose such a system - on the day you try to start the new system all the critical information is in the old stuff, and unless you take the time to port it forward you'll be dealing with BOTH the annoyance of digging it out of the old setup and the annoyance of fitting it into the new setup. It's usually easier in the short term to ignore the new system unless (again) management makes a point out of insisting on it being followed and puts a lot of energy into making sure things are the way they are supposed to be.
The bottom line is most people are trying to do their jobs and make something work, not prepare for a hypothetical lawsuit. Big businesses need to be much more careful about this sort of thing (I suppose any business should really, but large ones have deep pockets) but without a strong policy, the will to get it in place properly and port old stuff to a new system (which never helps the bottom line, I might add) it is just a tough thing to do.
People tend to think of big corporations as these well oiled machines, but there are people in them who are just like you and me - they just want to get the frigging thing done and go home, and messing with the corporate document retention system is one more headache without immediate benefit.
Re:I call poppycock (Score:2, Interesting)